Controlling 10 RGB LEDs with three pots(with out a microcontroller)?

hello i was just wondering if it was possible to wire 10 rgb leds together run all the red leads to one pot, the blue to another, and the green to the third, and have all of the leds colors controlled by turning the pots. Any information would be helpful. I am intending to use this as lighting on my head board in my room. Id be using 5mm UltraBright RGB Tri-color LEDs Thanks to all who reply.

It IS possible, but its not very elegant and will require similar/more parts than just using a uC. The reason being that the leds need current. To maintain their voltage they need x amount of current to flow from the supply. To dim them, the pot has to dump a portion of that current as heat (they're not very good at dumping a lot of current). When the leds are nearly off, the pot is nearly burning up. To get around this you use a pot to drive a curent limiting led driver. this instructable does exactly that. It's as simple as you will find.

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